Felipe Quispe Huanca "El Mallku" (Aymara language: "condor") is an
Aymara[1] political leader in Bolivia. He heads the Pachakuti
Indigenous Movement (MIP) and has been general secretary of the United
Union Confederation of Working Peasants of
BoliviaBolivia (CSUTCB). In 1984,
he was one of the leading organisers of the Tupac Katari Guerrilla
Army, a failed armed insurrection against the government. Quispe was
arrested for his involvement in the movement on August 19, 1992.
Quispe has worked for the establishment of an Tawantinsuyu republic
— which would take the name "Collasuyu" — in the Aymara-majority
regions of Bolivia.
Quispe is a staunch opponent of the neoliberal Washington consensus,
and is also strongly against U.S.-led schemes toward coca eradication,
which he sees as destroying a critical part of Aymara culture. He was
involved heavily in the Bolivian Gas War.
Quispe ran a failed campaign in the 2005 presidential elections, which
saw the victory of indigenous Evo Morales, leader of MAS (Movimiento
al socialismo).
Quispe has been a vocal critic of Morales' government, characterising
it as representing "neoliberalism with an Indian face".[2]